Idk man, Paris are in theory a nuts goats team. They have the core of what was arguably the best goats team in the world (eagle) combined with some the best coaches around. And experience scrimming the EU teams (of which most looked better than a large number of OWL teams in terms of goats play). Combine that with how weak London looked in there game vs philly. Its not unlikely that Paris could take this reasonably handedly.

They have a dedicated translator, as well I believe there in house chef might also be bilingual though not 100 certain on that one

I just had a fun, yet unlikely thought that I feel is worth sharing.
Due to how the soft region locking will affect contenders 2019 season 1, players who were signed to an organisation prior to October 28th 2018 are not counted towards the non-resident player limit. This rule will no longer count for season 2. But it does create an interesting hypothetical. This rule will prevent any team from north america fielding a full Korean team as no team has 2 starting players that are region locking exempt.
Well kinda, there is a very sneaky work around which could lead to the most stupid end scenario in the word. Where a full Korean team wins the 4 back to back Contenders NA title for Fusion University.
Though fusions current starting roster of Snillo, Alarm, Bernar, Naist, Changsik and Elk only has 2 players eligible for this exemption (Alarm and Bernar). There is a work around the org could use. Late 2018 the org chose to loan whoru to Korean team Meta Athena. This crucially means that he is still on his original contract with the fusion. A contract which was signed prior to the cut off date. Thus making him region locking exempt . Therefore if fusion wanted to they could build a full Korean roster that is eligible to play in contenders NA 2019 season 1. All they would need to do is bring back whoru and find a Korean main support (assuming whoru or naist plays hitscan well enough)
Granted this is unlikely due to fusion recently signing CarCar to the roster, but the meme dream is still a possibility.

I mean it isn't exactly something that can be helped. Simply put there the best team and no ones beaten them in contenders outside of a show match vs hurricane. Other teams kind of just need to step up

This isn't really a good representation of the system though. Local talent at a city level I will admit makes very little sense to be your primary objective, it's like making yourself your own little region with a incredibly low population to pull from when making your team (kind of mini OCE). Though regional talent is actually huge. Paris is a good example of this at an overwatch league level. they built a brand around being the European team and marking there European (and particularly french players). You can also see this in contenders teams like Hurricane who marked there EU players to show bring EU fans to there NA brand with a Korean main team. A hurdle that would be much harder without there regional talent at a contenders level. Looking for local talent is fine if you have a large enough area to pull from like a country or region. But if your limiting yourself to 1 city, thats just stupid.

Show me the proof

Issue is they would be putting him in for colourhex, who is a projectile dps through and through so you would really want to put in klaus. Also I'm told asking isn't the strongest at being a team mate part of being on team, so i'm not 100% sure if he would make the cut.

Yeah nah, Boston's solidly fucked for their 1st 2 games. Can wait to see who ends up flexing to DPS, or if they chuck someone on 2 way for those games then have them play contenders

Surprised bqb got through unscathed, I guess there counting the x6 suspension as enough

Australian players and geographical issues

Just for a little correction, this isn't the 1st official loan in overwatch history. It's the second, with the 1st being skipjack being loaned to laser kittens from rogue
(Sorce: https://twitter.com/LaserKittenz/status/855511849965629441 )

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Honestly idk is a hell of a pick up at main support.

Wait Eevee and muni. Soon to be revival of of loveshack.
Also yeah, if you want to put some Eevee's past records they played for Loveshack back during full circle summer series (and a fair bit before then, but that's The big name torney at the time

Tbh, I think his probably ded. Man disappeared of the face of Competitive play and twitter. Generally people don't come back from that super fast.

Honestly guys I don't really know on this one,
I mean I know the upsets pretty unlikely but for some reason I just have to believe. Something about the team this year really shows something. Of course everyone else is expecting the obvious results. But somewhere in my heart of hearts I believe it's possible. I believe in the upset, South Korea might just have some small chance in beating the titans of Australia.

Wait yeah, looked at the wrong players hero pool when I googled him

Hmmm, die they bring an edge lord in for the design team

So does sleepy speak Korean, if not I suggest he learns it pretty quick. 5 down one western player to go.

Really makes you wonder why its map wins not map differential

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LETS GO, 1 down 4 to go

Rip

TBH I though the plan in signing him was to allow them to strait transfer him up to Boston Uprising in order to solve their dps problem, guess Nero is gonna be filling that role

I highly doubt that it will be a full french team, talent pool isn't really there to make a completely national team from anywhere outside of Korea and china

Contenders AU's is at lan, rod laver arena Melbourne

I don't quite understand why Spain keep bringing bromas(imo kind sucks horible hero pool in most metas),at least popi is there to carry hard enough an owl might give him a chance for S2 or something

The players on INTerstella were decently well known for various forms of account boosting/win trading within the ranked system

Well thats a nice fucking meme for the guys in surge

When the patch notes are longer than your last essay

Meza seems a bit slow on the old candles as of recent

There is also strawbella who played Australian Contenders season 1with legacy

Meta change, loss of proper coaching, as well as the 10-0 from last stage seeming like I bit of a fluke with many of those wins being super close.

I'd say its gonna go to Hurricane and Fusion. also think there is definite potential for Toronto to take the semi vs envision but the gap between Fusion and every other NA team is definitely big enough for them to take the finals. And hurricane just look so dam strong right now I no one in EU can match them.

Dallas fuel the only thing keeping mykl in business after Kungarna

Low key incoming news that Houston has signed esca for the triple lul meta

Well then, they still can't run tracer genji dive....

most likely there won't be many name duplicates (of the pro players adam and jake are really the only ones that duplicate) and its most likely that when they sign to owl they will allow duplicate names.

Whats this, dallas is still falling the fuck apart. Whats new here

He played the genji/d.va role for eUnited back during the contenders season 0 and take over 2. But has recently gone back to his old lucio role that he previously played on ReUnited (I belive sighting that it was very hard to find good support players when creating a new team(orgless and hungry) , when compared to finding dps players so he dusted of the old skates for a new age of lucio bot)

Lowkey, the blank blue thing is a meme......

Now realistically I would be super excited to see another org enter overwatch in OCE, but at the same time I've actually heard horror stories about tainted minds an their incompetence with manage professional teams. "The bedroom of the team house did not have a door" (paraphrased) which at least makes me raise an eyebrow about these guys entering the scene

What is it with diem and farming easy money

feels kind of bad that none of the guys got into OWL or even contenders NA

why didn't they grab IDK while they were at it though, thats the real question

Legit best draw ever, Eagle were about to take the point when half their team DCs of out of the game the moment it hits 0 and it calls a draw

3 spots down 4 to go

The idea is to give the spots value it means there something thats rather valuable to both an org and free agent team. That's also a reason as to why any free agent team that makes contenders blizzard is apparently gonna help to set up a legal entity instead of the current captain owns the spot rule. (granted the captain can be the owner of the legal entity so they would still technically own the spot, idk legal stuffs not my strong suit)

That is if he has improved, its not to uncommon for players to drop of over large absences of competitive play, Granted he has still been playing so he should be mechanically fine but his coms and team work might be a bit off.